An Inkling
My friend told me that they had laid out of church for quite a while,
never quite finding the right place, but that when they had come here it had
clicked for them. He wished they had
come sooner, and he sensed that they had wasted some valuable years.
Maybe so. We can waste time in
life. The biblical threescore and ten
passes oh so quickly. So we do want to
seize every opportunity that the moment affords.
But in another sense the time has to be right for us to take certain
steps. Some growth cannot come
sooner.
Our Christian life is more like agriculture than manufacturing. Factories produce on a schedule, and
efficiency is at a premium. But how can we
schedule things of the spirit? And as
for spiritual growth, it is anything but efficient. It’s more like farming: the time has to be right before there can be
a harvest.
In what season does the Divine Gardener have you? What opportunity has ripened? It’s time to reap.
Each in its season,
Keith
